African finance group Letshego Holdings has acquired a 100% shareholding in AFB Ghana Plc. AFB is a licensed non-bank financial institution and offers innovative credit products to over 60,000 customers across its network of more than 25 branch and customer access points.

Brand Africa has announced that MTN is the overall best brand in Africa and reclaimed the #1 spot as the Most Admired Brand in Africa at a gala launch of the 4th Annual Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands at Sandton Convention Center.

Nigeria needs to let the naira devalue as foreign-exchange trading restrictions used to keep the currency stable are starting to harm growth in Africa’s largest economy, said the head of the country’s biggest lender by assets.

Nigeria’s stocks rose in the longest winning streak since July 2013 as investors bought shares they deemed oversold following declines spurred by concern lower oil prices and elections will hurt the economy.

Nigeria’s dollar bonds have been battered by tumbling oil prices and domestic politics, but thanks to low debt ratios, a light repayment schedule and demand from local banks they should weather the storm.

Nigerian companies are turning into foreign acquisition targets as valuations slide with the price of oil, according to a law firm that advised on one of the country’s biggest Eurobond sales last year.

So you thought a six-month break on a desert island looked appealing and spent long hours in silent meditation, reflecting on self-actualisation, harmony and humanity’s ceaseless race to consume the planet.

Stanbic IBTC is Nigeria’s best-performing bank stock. Its share price has climbed 40.5% this year and 55.4% over the past twelve months. Is it nearing the end of its run? Or is the market offering investors a discount to the bank’s real worth?

PayPal has signed up “tens of thousand” of Nigerians in its first week of operating in Africa’s biggest economy, with consumers already purchasing items from Britain, China and the United States via its online platform, a company official said.

Standard & Poor’s expects to rate a number of Nigerian banks this year and is talking to some Kenyan banks and companies about future credit ratings, its managing director for sub-Saharan Africa said on Monday.

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